Couchbase Server 3.0 Released 

Couchbase, Inc. today announced that it has released Couchbase Server 3.0, its most significant release to date. The 3.0 release, available today, introduces more than 200 new features and enhancements, including major extensions to its core architecture that advance the company’s lead in delivering the industry’s most scalable, reliable and consistently high-performance distributed database. This release expands Couchbase Server to support an even broader set of enterprise and big data use cases.

"Couchbase is setting the agenda for scalable, high-performance distributed database technology, with innovations like being first to integrate a distributed cache with key-value storage and a document database in a single platform, and delivering the first NoSQL mobile database,” said Couchbase CEO Bob Wiederhold. “We continue to make huge advances in foundational database technologies, including storage, mobility, query, and performance. With Couchbase Server 3.0, we’ve significantly broadened the use cases we can support so more enterprises can join leaders like AT&T, Walmart and eBay, who run high performance mission critical apps on Couchbase.”

3.0 Major Architectural Extensions

Modern enterprises require the ability to easily and elastically scale mission critical applications, and to cost effectively handle very large and constantly growing data sets. Couchbase Server 3.0 delivers major foundational advancements – including stream-based Database Change Protocol and Dynamically Tunable Memory – that dramatically improve scalability, resilience, performance, and the cost-efficiency of working with massive operational data sets. In independent benchmarks, Couchbase has already demonstrated industry-leading scalability and performance, outperforming competitors by up to 13x in read/write throughput. The architectural advances in the 3.0 release further extend Couchbase’s lead, resulting in performance improvements ranging from 2x to 100s of times in magnitude. In addition, the 3.0 release includes new capabilities that improve the developer experience, enhance reliability and security, and streamline administration.

3.0 Major Benefits

With these powerful new capabilities, Couchbase Server 3.0 delivers major benefits to enterprises, administrators, and developers, further raising the bar on enterprise-grade NoSQL technology. These benefits include:

• Enterprises can work with massive operational data sets in a much more cost efficient way, achieving dramatically greater output and value from their existing hardware resources.
• Enterprises can deploy Couchbase Server to support an even wider range of use cases, reducing or eliminating the need for other databases and distributed caches, thereby lowering costs and complexity.
• Administrators will find the Couchbase Server 3.0 console is more powerful than ever before with numerous enhancements that greatly simplify, secure and streamline management of their Couchbase deployment.
• Developers can build high performance, scalable applications faster and more easily with newly released 2.0 Couchbase SDKs — which now provide built-in application programming interfaces for JSON, support for reactive programming models, a common user experience across all APIs, as well as integration with popular frameworks including Spring Data, Python Twisted, and Python gevent. The Couchbase Open Source community is also creating new frameworks for emerging platforms such as Ottoman for Node.js. All together these enable developers to build applications with far less effort and coding.